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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-550-4-27-7
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: May 19, 2010
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: February 12, 1975
• Content Type: CABLE

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ECUTION OF THOSE POLICIES, IT w0ULD BE REmAPKAS E IF HE OID NOT
HAVE DOUBTS WHETHER A SUCCESSOR wOUL RE ABLE TO PICK UP IN mlDw
STREAM ANO CARRY /T ON AS wEL140
A STAR EDITIORIAL ON "THE ERITREAN FIGHTING" SAYS IT IS DIFFICULT
AT T418 ?DISTANCE TO MAKE AN ACCURATE ASSESSMENT OF WHAT IS GOING
ON IN ERITREA, ALL oNE CAN SAY AT THIS DISTANCE IS THAT HEAVY
FIGHTING HAS 0 AND PERHAPS Is 0 TAKING PLACE THERE BETWEEN
SECESSTONIST ERITREAN GUERRILLAS, MOST OF WHOM ARE MOSLEMS, AND
CHRISTIAN ETHIOPIA'S REGULAWARMY, THEE TS NOT MUCH NEW TN
'Hiss BUT THE SERIOUSNESS OF THF PRESENT SITUATION IS HEIGHT,
ENED By TWO ELEMENTS; THE INTERNAL WEAKNESS OF ETHIOPIA'S
"SOCIALIST" JUNTA OF FACELfSS YOUNG MILITARY OFFICERS, AND
THE STRENGTH or THE GUERRILLAS, WHO IN RECENT MONTHS HAVE REV'
CE/vEo BoNETNING LIF $5 MILLION IN MILITARY AID FROM L/BYA,
ANOTHER FORMER ITALIAN CoLDNY THAT HAPPENS TO BE BOTH OILwRICH
AND AGGRESSIVELY ANIT021ONT31, IN ALL THIS, THE U,s, TS I?EfT, As
USUAL, PRETTY mucH IN THF MIDDLE. KAGNEw STATION, OUR COMmUNICAT0
IONS BASE ("OSTIA ASMARA, NO LoNGER IS ESSENTIAL TO OUR NATIONAL
SECURITY, RELATIONS BETWEEN THIS COUNTRY AMO THE ETHIOPIAN JUNTA
HAVE BEEN somEwHAT CLOUDED SINCE THE MASS EXECUTIONS THAT FOLLDWED
THE DETHRONEMENT OE THE EMPEROR, PROBABLY THE WISEST couRse wnuLD BE
TO CONTINUE LIMITED ARMS sHIPmENTs TO ETHIOPIA WHILE PUSHING HARD
FOR- A CEASE,,FIRE AND A POLITICAL SETTLEMENT OF THE ERITREAN ISSUE
WHAT 1$ IMPORTANT NOw IS TO END THE FIGHTING AND PRESERVE TO THE
EXTENT POSSIBLE THE TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF ETHIOPIA?,
YOU, ARE PICTURED ON PAGE ANt WITH SADAT AT SAOAT'S REST MOUSE ON
THE NILE, TAKE ARTICLE ACCOMPANYING THE PHOTO SAYS THAT TODAY
YOU PRESENTED PRESIDENT SADAT CLOSE TO A DOZEN sPECIFIC'isR01,1
DEMANDS FOR ENDING THE ARAB'S ECONOMIC, POLITICAL AND DIPLOMATIC
BOYCOTT OF xsRAEL,
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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/05/19: LOC-HAK-550-4-27-7